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Solar Energy - problems, challenges, issues

Solar Energy - problems, challenges, issues

The case for Optimism (vs. Pessimism)

The case for Optimism (vs. Pessimism)

Science Fiction - predict / prevent the future

Reading Science Fiction can help predict / prevent the future

Optimistic, Good Trends in Society, History

Optimistic, Good Trends in Society, History

Robotics and Automation - research, trends

Robotics and Automation - research, trends

Our World in Data

A collection of research from the “ Our World in Data” website

IPFS and the Future of the Internet

IPFS and the Future of the Internet

Satellites and the Future of the Internet

Satellites and the Future of the Internet

History of the Internet

History of the Internet

Blockchain, Decentralization and the Future of the Internet

A collection of articles and videos looking at forces shaping the Internet

The Inevitable by Kevin Kelly - book

a collection of articles about 'The Inevitable', A book by Kevin Kelly

AGI - Artificial General Intelligence - Progress and Predictions

a collection of articles about AGI - Artificial General Intelligence - Progress and Predictions

Research: brain-computer interfaces - Neuralink and Elon Musk

Research: brain-computer interfaces - Neuralink and Elon Musk

Big Data - Data science and AI - and business strategy

a collection of articles about Using AI and Data science

Brave - blockchain based internet browser

A collection of articles and videos looking at forces shaping the Internet

Kai-Fu Lee - researcher, VC - AI, Deep Learning

a collection of articles and videos about Kai-Fu Lee , an AI researcher and VC based in China, T...

domains, URL, and the Future of the Internet

A collection of articles and videos looking at forces shaping the Internet

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Article

Global fertility has collapsed, with profound economic consequences

The baby-bust economy; how declining birth rates will change the world. What might change the world’s dire demographic trajectory? | Leaders (2023)


Article

The Four Horsemen of the Tech Recession – Stratechery by Ben Thompson

Tech is increasingly divorced from the real economy thanks to the COVID hangover and Apple’s App Tracking Transparency (2023)


Article

An End To Doomerism - 5 Reasons for Technological Optimism

Or why I’m coming out as an impatient optimist. (2022)


Article

Kevin Kelly: The Case for Optimism

Kevin Kelly is the founder of Wired Magazine and author of several books, among them The Inevitable. For Warp News he presents his case for optimism. (2021)


Article

Enlightenment Now: A summary

The theme of Enlightenment Now is contained in its subtitle: it is that reason, science and humanism lead to progress. The corollary is: keep it up! (2018)


Article

Optimism - Not Boring by Packy McCormick

Why it's worth trying to make the world more optimistic Optimism is more useful than pessimism. But pessimism is more pervasive than it has a ri... (2022)


Article

Building American Dynamism | a16z Future

To stave off national stagnation in a post-COVID world, technologists need to build companies that tackle America's biggest problems head-on. (2022)


Article

Science fiction’s curious ability to predict the future | Niall Ferguson - The Spectator

The pandemic is not quite over, but we are getting used to its inconveniences. What disaster will be next? An antibiotic-resistant strain of the bu... (2021)


Article

Do we only have 60 harvests left? Soil Erosion issue, explained

Claims that the world has only 100, 60, or even 30 years of harvests left often hit the headlines. These claims are overblown, but soil erosion is ... (2021)


Article

Elon Musk demonstrates Neuralink’s tech live using pigs with surgically implanted brain-monitoring devices

Elon Musk -founded Neuralink has made headlines over the past many years around it efforts to develop a new kind of interface between the human bra... (2020)


Article

This Is How We Beat the Coronavirus

Mitigation can buy us time, but only suppression can get us to where we need to be. While many watched the coronavirus spread across the globe w... (2020)


Article

Stanford Professor: Data Indicates We’re Severely Overreacting To Coronavirus

In an analysis published Tuesday, Stanford’s John P.A. Ioannidis — co-director of the university’s Meta-Research Innovation Center and ... (2020)


Article

Why the coronavirus outbreak is terrible news for climate change

It’ll sap funding and political will—but actually, it should. the fear is that the highly contagious coronavirus could complicate the challenges... (2020)


Article

We’re not going back to normal

Social distancing is here to stay for much more than a few weeks. It will upend our way of life, in some ways forever. To stop coronavirus we wi... (2020)


Article

After AI, Fashion and Shopping Will Never Be the Same

Put on your VR headset and have a conversation with your AI. “It’s time to buy a dress for tomorrow’s event” is all you have to say. (2019)


Article

10 Breakthrough Technologies 2020

The mission of MIT Technology Review is to bring about better-informed and more conscious decisions about technology through authoritative, influen... (2020)


Article

Machine learning deployment — Benedict Evans

In the last 5-6 years, machine learning has gone from ‘crazy idea from the 1980s’ to ‘software’. That has come with several waves of deployment and... (2019)


Article

The Economy Keeps Growing, but Americans Are Using Less Steel, Paper, Fertilizer, and Energy – Reason.com

Environmental scientist Jesse Ausubel remembers the moment his research trajectory changed. Over dinner one night in 1987, his friend and (2019)


Article

Actionable Book Summary: The Inevitable by Kevin Kelly | Durmonski.com

If you want to know more about how the future will unfold reading The Inevitable by Kevin Kelly should be your very first step. Understand the key ... (2019)


Article

Across the rich world, an extraordinary jobs boom is under way - The Economist 2019

Many popular perceptions about the modern labour market are wrong (2019)


Article

Yuval Noah Harari Is Worried About Our Souls - Issue 67: Reboot - Nautilus

The big-data makeover of humanity could be a recipe for disaster. "Just a few years ago Yuval Noah Harari was an obscure Israeli historian wit... (2019)


Article

AI Has Made Video Surveillance Automated and Terrifying - VICE

AI can flag people based on their clothing or behavior, identify people's emotions, and find people who are acting "unusual." (2019)


Article

BBC - Future - The global internet is disintegrating. What comes next?

Russia is the latest country to try to find ways to police its online borders, sparking the end of the internet as we know it (2019)


Article

Cooking As A Service – danco.blog

This tweet made me think a lot: First of all, as much as I hate this idea, I think this notion is correct. This trend has been happening for a long... (2019)


Article

How artificial intelligence will revolutionize the way video games are developed and played - The Verge

Until now, the kind of self-learning artificial intelligence that’s led to advances in self-driving cars, computer vision, and natural language pro... (2019)


Article

The Hidden Automation Agenda of the Davos Elite - The New York Times

In public, executives wring their hands over automation’s negative consequences for workers. In private, they talk about how they are racing to aut... (2019)


Article

The evolution of Artificial Intelligence (AI) – AI’s coming of age | UBS Artificial Intelligence

A journey through the world of AI showcasing how AI will potentially benefit society and the industries increasingly prominent role in business AI’... (2019)


Article

What comes after open source? | Denis Nazarov

This post explores the differences between software tools and services; how the stateful nature of software services led them to be closed; and pos... (2019)


Article

2019: The year face recognition goes big and voice ads stall | VentureBeat

While already used on a wider basis in China, we will see facial recognition systems launched in the U.S. on a test-basis in large public venues in... (2019)


Article

Marc Andreessen: VR will be “1,000” times bigger than AR – TechCrunch

In a new a16z podcast with the venture firm’s founders Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, there’s a lot to enjoy, from Andreessen’s TV show recommen... (2019)


Video

David Brooks: The Root Causes of Populism, Authoritarianism and The Whole Global Mess

World On Fire: Right-wing populism is surging worldwide, in places as diverse as India, the Netherlands, Argentina, France and the United States. W... (2024)


Video

Where We Go From Here with OpenAI's Mira Murati

As CTO of OpenAI, Mira Murati oversaw the development and release of GPT-4 and ChatGPT. Here she tells Martin Casado the story behind the release o... (2023)


Video

22 Innovations Arriving in 2022

Thanks for an amazing year here on YouTube! It's been really incredible watching the channel grow so much this year. Really excited for what 2022 h... (2022)


Video

Mary Meeker’s 2019 internet trends report | Code 2019

Recode Published on Jun 11, 2019 At Recode by Vox’s 2019 Code Conference, Bond partner Mary Meeker released her slides in rapid succession, cov... (2019)


Video

Video games of the future will build themselves - The Verge

The Verge Published on Mar 6, 2019 AI in video games is very different than the AI in self-driving cars, smart home devices, and natural language... (2019)


Video

Why the world population won’t exceed 11 billion | Hans Rosling

THINK Global School Published on Dec 1, 2015 In part 5 of a 6-part lecture, Hans Rosling uses statistics to give an overview of population growth... (2019)


Video

When Software Eats the Real (Estate) World - a16z

Buying a home is in many ways the pinnacle of the American dream. And yet the way things work today, it's a painful process. Real estate agents, br... (2018)


Video

The End of the Beginning - a16z

In his now annual state-of-innovation talk at the a16z Summit in November 2018, Andreessen Horowitz’ Benedict Evans walks through where we are now ... (2018)


Video

Can we rule out near-term AGI? -- Greg Brockman of OpenAI -- Web Summit 2018

Web Summit Published on Nov 7, 2018 For the past 60 years, despite all the setbacks, neural networks have steadily improved. This talk from Gre... (2018)


Video

Bill Gates on Factfulness

Bill Gates recently read Hans Rosling's new book "Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World—and Why Things Are Better Than You Think." I... (2018)


Video

We Met The Founder Of Ethereum, VICE on HBO, Season 6 (Bonus Scene)

VICE News Published on Apr 20, 2018 Bitcoin’s emergence as a global digital currency has been as revolutionary as it has been erratic. But whil... (2018)


Video

MIT AGI: Future of Intelligence (Ray Kurzweil)

This is a talk by Ray Kurzweil for course 6.S099: Artificial General Intelligence. For this entire recording, Ray did not use slides, so the video ... (2018)


Video

S-curves in Innovation

a16z, Published on Aug 5, 2017: "Benedict Evans describes "the s-curve” in the life cycle of technology innovation, and why it’s important. Techno... (2017)


Video

10 Year Futures (vs. What's Happening Now) | a16z

a16z talk with a look at trends in technologies: “The personal computer S-curve gave us 1.5 billion PCs and 3 billion people online, and now the s... (2017)


Video

Nationalism vs Globalism: the new political divide | Yuval Noah Harari - TED Talks

TED Published on Feb 21, 2017 How do we make sense of today's political divisions? In a wide-ranging conversation full of insight, historian Yu... (2017)


Podcast

Siddhartha Mukherjee on the future of disease and diagnostics

Will artificial intelligence change what it means to be human? Cancer physician, researcher, and author Siddhartha Mukherjee joins the podcast to h... (2023)


Podcast

Can We Program Our Cells? - Michael Elowitz, a professor of biology and bioengineering at Caltech - The Joy of Why

Listen to this episode from The Joy of Why on Spotify. Making living cells blink fluorescently like party lights may sound frivolous. But the demon... (2023)


Podcast

a16z Podcast: When Is VR’s iPhone Moment? – Andreessen Horowitz

“There was a lot of hype about VR ad then it seemed to go pretty quiet. So where are we right now? Bigscreen founder Darshan Shankar and a16z gener... (2018)


Book

The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism

From the chief economics commentator of the Financial Times, a magnificent reckoning with how and why the marriage between democracy and capitalism... (2023)


Book

The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly

Goodreads reviews: "From one of our leading technology thinkers and writers, a guide through the twelve technological imperatives that will shape t... (2019)


Book

Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari

Yuval Noah Harari, author of the critically-acclaimed New York Times bestseller and international phenomenon Sapiens, returns with an equally origi... (2019)


Book

Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

When asked simple questions about global trends—what percentage of the world’s population live in poverty; why the world’s population is increasing... (2018)


Book

Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction by Philip E. Tetlock

Superforecasting has 7,271 ratings and 617 reviews. "Everyone would benefit from seeing further into the future, whether buying stocks, craftin... (2018)


SlideShare

Is vc still a thing? - 2019 - Mark Suster, Both Sides of the Table

A look at the Venture Capital industry heading into 2020. Some have questioned whether the industry has a future. This deck does a detailed look at... (2019)


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